unixman_again

https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/systems-engineer-stourbridge-west-midlands-1906845

Salary GBP £25,894 - £31,353 per year (Sixth Form Colleges Association support staff pay scale 15-21) Full Time, Permanent Start date–not specified– Apply by4 Jul 2022 https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/network-systems-administrator-stourbridge-west-midlands-1662608

https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/network-systems-administrator-stourbridge-west-midlands-1629575

I really, really hate those bleach blocks that people put in toilets. Sorry - I just had to get that out of my cistern. (seen on sickipedia)

Is there a college (preferably) or a school that has moved completely to mobile devices, who are prepared to share their experiences, both good and bad with my boss? If you could PM me, so I can pass your contact details on that would be swell. We're in the Black Country and he may want to arrange a face to face meeting at some point. I think the plan is to ditch all desktop PCs for both teacher and students, have a dock installed. Obviously this will mean choosing a standard device, which I suspect will be a dockable laptop in the 12" range. Thanks again.

Two-Lane Blacktop - a film I have long wanted to see but it is never on the cinema or TV. It is probably the ultimate road movie. Here is a write up about it, which spurred me on to finally get it. https://reprobatepress.com/2020/06/04/two-lane-blacktops-road-to-nowhere/ The next one on my list is Electra Glide in Blue which I have seen albeit 40+ years ago.

We haven't lost any of the pens yet. Some of the nibs are very dirty and squashed but they still work fine. Those teachers that use the interactive features love it, especially the bit that is built into the projector. The software that runs on the PC isn't used as much. You don't actually need a special pen; you can configure a finger as the third pen. We tried this but sausage fingered teachers didn't like it. We have 6 interactive TVs but they never really worked all that well for us. We have installed those in one department and those teachers will contine with them. The plan is (well this week) to continue to fit the Epsons into the remaining classrooms, 1/2 this year and the remainder next.

Last summer we installed 30 Epson EB-710UI and matt finish whiteboards, and this summer we are hoping to do another 15. The ultimate goal is to have one type of projector college wide. We're found these to be very good. No lamps! We have a spare standby projector in case, but we have't even unpacked it. Teachers who want interactivity find the software and built-in stuff easy to use and those teachers that aren't interested in activity can write on the whiteboard with ordinary pens.

Any ideas what is going on? When I use Chrome, I get the CAPTCHA, but in Firefox I don't. I did this morning, but the boss had been fiddling and he has broken it. I want to tell him what to do to fix it.

https://torrentfreak.com/removing-annoying-windows-10-features-is-a-dmca-violation-microsoft-says-200611/

Brilliant message from New Zealand

I have two of these [ATTACH=CONFIG]58290[/ATTACH] I also have a USB to USB Smart cable. You can have it for the taking. I have this Promethean stuff too

Blue Water, White Death - was in Port Lincoln when they were filming it and I remember seeing the boat with the shark cages, and saying "Hello" to Valerie Taylor.

Legal complaint lodged with UK data watchdog over claims coronavirus Test and Trace programme flouts GDPR

in my case, no satnav or mobile phone, means an atlas and a couple of A-Zs are essential.

Two interesting articles https://blog.nem.ec/2020/05/24/ebay-port-scanning/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/26/ebay_port_scans_your_pc/ I don't use ebay much, but as a Linux user, I take heart in this bit of The Register article "The port scanning script does not always run. We have only seen it run on Windows, and normally only on the first visit to eBay after some unspecified period." Also, one of the comments in The Register, tells you how to disable it.

"Yes, there are cases where people will have things posted online about themselves that they'd rather are not there. And I understand that this is an even more fraught area when it comes to children. But there are very real free expression concerns as well, and the ability to use this as a tool of blatant censorship seems way too likely." https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200521/11304944547/court-tells-grandma-to-delete-photos-grandkids-facebook-violating-gdpr.shtml

Update: "As is so often the case with internet giants when they are caught out for ludicrous, incompetent or embarrassing censorship, they simply throw up their arms, claim that it was some sort of ghastly mistake, and reverse the censorship. So the uncut version was quietly restored to Netflix.." https://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/me_internet.htm#Oh_LaLa_3792

Honestly, what is the world coming to. https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/05/19/netflix-censors-oh-la-la-magazine-cover-in-back-to-the-future-ii/ Channel 4 didn't censor it a couple of weeks ago.

Pontoon

Two from sickipedia I once did a stand up gig in Cornwall and it went terribly. I got Bude off stage. The opposite of formaldehyde is casualdejeykll.

UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm

More problems https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52732818 On the plus side, Crapita aren't involved in the app.